Garden Gallery
The Garden Gallery at the Farm at the Arb is a “story garden” — a living exhibit where we invite community partners from outside the Arboretum to share their stories through plants. These curators design the garden with the plants that tell their story — in the process, elevating voices from communities that are historically overlooked by botanical gardens.
A Hmong Botanical Garden
The garden contains 12 of the most important Hmong chicken soup herbs, as well as other plants that Zongxee has chosen to represent Hmong culture, including rice, Hmong vegetables and flowers. This living exhibit will be up throughout the growing seasons of 2024 and will be replanted in 2025.
To learn more about Hmong culture in Minnesota and the Hmong Diaspora from Asia after the Vietnam War, please refer to the Minnesota Historical Society, or ask a librarian in the Andersen Horticultural Library how to find resources on this topic from other University of Minnesota libraries.
See the map for the exact location of the Garden Gallery.
- Red Dye
- Red Fiddle
- Red Vein Vine (malabar spinach)
- Green Vein Vine (green malabar spinach)
- Lemon Grass
- Red Fat Medicine Velvet Plant
- Fat Green Medicine Longevity Plant
- Green Pepper Medicine
- Rough Edge Leaf
- Red Duck Feet
- Vas Koos (related to turmeric)
- Turmeric
- Elephant ear
- Red canna lilly
- Green canna lilly
- Celosia
- Cosmos
- Balsam flower
- Bitter melon
- Hmong melon
- Mustard greens
- Cilantro
- Papaya
- Banana
- Red amaranth
- Thai basil
- Thai chilis
- Red corn
